Re: Current working directory on win32

Umm .. If you only need the working directory, I would suggest using FindBin instead, as it is platform independent.

use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin;

print $FindBin::Bin, "\n"; # prints c:\dev\temp\monks\
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A quick glance at the POD for Win32 shows that Win32::GetLongPathName in list context returns the path and the file as two different components. It seems to me that you are trying to do this:

use Win32;

my( $path, $filename ) = Win32::GetFullPathName( $0 );
my $longpath = Win32::GetFullPathName( $path );

print $longpath; # prints c:\dev\temp\monks\
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Here I find the path and filename component and stuff them into variables. Then I attempt to translate $path to a long path with the second call to Win32::GetFullPathName. This works on my machine with Activestate Perl 5.8 and Windows XP.

Hope this helps.

pernod
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Re^2: Current working directory on win32 by EverLast (Scribe) on Oct 14, 2004 at 12:54 UTC
> i have written a small script to know the name of current working directory The original poster seems to want cwd, at least that's what he states. FindBin "Locate's directory of original perl script". ---Lars	[reply]
Re^3: Current working directory on win32 by pernod (Chaplain) on Oct 14, 2004 at 13:31 UTC
Ah! I think I see your nuance, although I would argue that it is of a somewhat academic character in this case. Isn't "Locates directory of original perl script" in this case similar to Cwd's "get pathname of current working directory"? After all, the end results are (on my box) the same. TIMTOWDI, you know ;) `use FindBin; use Win32; use Cwd; my( $path, $filename ) = Win32::GetFullPathName( $0 ); my $longpath = Win32::GetFullPathName( $path ); print "FindBin: $FindBin::Bin\n"; print "Win32: $longpath\n"; print "Cwd: ", cwd(), "\n";` [download] The result: `c:/dev/temp/monks $ perl wdir.pl FindBin: C:/dev/temp/monks Win32: c:\dev\temp\monks\ Cwd: c:/dev/temp/monks` [download] Seems to me that FindBin and Cwd does more or less the same job here? pernod -- Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Current working directory on win32 by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 14, 2004 at 13:58 UTC
pernod, Notice kamesh3183 said the command prompt and didn't indicate if it was in the same directory. Win32 aside, see the difference: `$ cat /tmp/foo.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use FindBin; use Cwd; print "FindBin: $FindBin::Bin\n"; print "Cwd: ", cwd(), "\n"; $ ./tmp/foo.pl FindBin: /tmp Cwd: /` [download] Cheers - L~R	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Current working directory on win32 by vjo (Novice) on Oct 15, 2004 at 17:08 UTC
> Seems to me that FindBin and Cwd does more or less the same job here? No c:/ $ perl temp/wdir.pl FindBin: C:/temp Win32: C:\temp\ Cwd: C:/ c:/ $ Whether he should use FindBin or getcwd depends on what he is trying to achieve.	[reply]